WNYC tracked all of the fatal traffic crashes in New York City in 2014 — 269 people total. That number may change when the police department releases December data, which often contains other deaths. Click the red arrow to read more about each crash. The 'Story' icon offers personal stories. If you know someone who has died, we’d like to hear from you. Email us at transponation@gmail.com or call (347) 352-5686.

We can absolutely release the data we collected, and have been meaning to. It's a bit of a mess at the moment in an internal spreadsheet used to drive the interactive. But we can clean it up and make it available. We'll try to do that before the month is out.

This project was designed to run just through 2014, and we'd love to find a partnership to restart it for 2015 (it's not too late!). We also be willing to discuss posting the code to have someone else take over the project wholesale. But the code is not the tricky part; the individual, accurate reporting around each death is what took most of our effort.

Anyone interested in taking this further is welcome to reach out to me directly at jkeefe(at)wnyc.org or to Andrea Bernstein at abernstein(at)wnyc.org.

Thank you so much for this. The level of detail about each event in this dataset is fantastic. It adds a ton of value alongside the 2014 crash stats from the NYPD. I hope to put it to good use in safe street advocacy. I'll also share the dataset with Transportation Alternatives, I imagine there are more than a few folks there who would love to see this.

@jkeefe, at CodeAcross, I had several conversations with people who were really interested in the Mean Streets data. But their elation was quickly followed by disappointment when they found out that Mean Streets is no longer actively maintained.

Maybe, ask for it specifically during the Spring Drive?

Joking aside, is there anything specific that the community can do to ensure Mean Streets continues?

I'm thrilled to let everyone know that The New York World has partnered with WNYC to continue the "Mean Streets" effort tracking every traffic fatality in New York City for 2015.

WNYC began this tracking at the start of 2014, and has compiled what we believe to be the most current, complete list of NYC traffic fatalities -- including names, locations, circumstances and, in some cases, charges.

We had meant it to be a one-year project, but continued interest -- particularly by open-data and transpo-minded folks on this forum -- led us to see a partner to continue this independent reporting with journalistic rigor. We're thrilled that Benjamin Lesser, Harry Stevens and Jenny Zou will be doing just that at The New York World.

Mean Streets is such a valuable resource that clearly demonstrates the value of expertly curated open data! Hopefully, members of the community, beyond using this great resource, also contribute to the compilation.

Thank you so much for continuing mean streets into 2015! the wealth of data that it compiles is so valuable to safe street advocacy, and the ongoing Vision Zero campaign. As the data is released and we get more updates, I'm keeping Brooklyn's Transportation Alternatives members abreast of the improvements to this tool.